Autor según el artículo: Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P

Departamento: Psicologia

e-ISSN: 14302772

Autor/es de la URV: Ferré Romeu, Maria Pilar

Palabras clave: Semantic information Mismatch negativity Involuntary attention Increases distraction Emotional words Distributed neuronal networks Brain potentials Basic emotions Auditory distraction Acoustic novelty

Resumen: Several studies have argued that words evoking negative emotions, such as disgust, grab attention more than neutral words, and leave traces in memory that are more persistent. However, these conclusions are typically based on tasks requiring participants to process the semantic content of these words in a voluntarily manner. We sought to compare the involuntary attention grabbing power of disgusting and neutral words using them as rare and unexpected auditory distractors in a cross-modal oddball task, and then probing the participants' memory for these stimuli in a surprise recognition task. Frequentist and Bayesian analyses converged to show that, compared to a standard tone, disgusting and neutral auditory words produced significant but equivalent levels of distraction in a visual categorization task, that they elicited comparable levels of memory discriminability in the incidental recognition task, and that the participants' individual sensitivity to disgust did not influence the results. Our results suggest that distraction by unexpected words is not modulated by their emotional valence, at least when these words are task-irrelevant and are temporally and perceptually decoupled from the target stimuli.

Áreas temáticas: Psychology, experimental Psychology Psicología Oncology Medicine (miscellaneous) Hematology General medicine Experimental and cognitive psychology Enfermagem Educação física Developmental and educational psychology Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências biológicas ii Arts and humanities (miscellaneous)

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 03400727

Direcció de correo del autor: mariadelpilar.ferre@urv.cat

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3192-0040

Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-18

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4

URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung. 84 (7): 1801-1814

Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Parmentier FBR, Fraga I, Leiva A, Ferré P (2020). Distraction by deviant sounds: disgusting and neutral words capture attention to the same extent. Psychological Research-Psychologische Forschung, 84(7), 1801-1814. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4

DOI del artículo: 10.1007/s00426-019-01192-4

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2020

Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications